6 days Ago By Morgan Fargo
Meghan Markle is no stranger to podcast chairs. Not only has she recently launched her own Confessions Of A Female Founder , a series that sees her interviewing her successful cohort of friends, she has now appeared on The Jamie Kern Lima Show to chat all things motherhood , self-improvement, and how she’s changed as she’s grown older. Besides the tears (Meghan’s, in response to a note from her children, Archie and Lilibet), there was something else fans couldn’t miss: her bare face.
Without getting into whether famous women forgoing make-up for public appearances should be characterised as a brave choice, Meghan is usually in glam when facing the cameras. Her go-to look includes a luminous base, plenty of bronzer, natural, filled-in brows and a soft, often brown-toned smoky eye. To eschew it entirely is new, though it makes sense.
Why wouldn’t Meghan – who over the years has visited some of the world’s best facialists and skin specialists – want to show off that radiant complexion? In the days before her wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan was known to visit London’s Nichola Joss , a facialist specialising in intra-oral massage or, as it’s better known, the buccal facial. This is where Joss, wearing a pair of gloves, will massage the muscles that line the inner and outer parts of the cheek in order to ease tension and aid lymphatic drainage. “Facials are super-important to Meghan,” Joss told British Vogue in 2018 .
“She’s anti the mannequin look, as I call it. She likes effective natural products and treatments to de-stress and anti-age.” In 2021, Markle was reported to be visiting cult celebrity facialist Sarah Chapman , who is also based in London.
Chapman, whose clients include Gigi Hadid, Naomi Watts and Uma Thurman, is known for her glow-giving sessions, incorporating everything from radio frequency to infrared light, microneedling and ultra-sculpting, hands-on massage. Over in California, where the Sussex family now lives in Montecito, Meghan has kept fairly mum about her routine, save for one brand: LA-facialist Kate Somerville’s products. Somerville treats other California residents Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson and Olivia Wilde, too.
On her wedding day, celebrity make-up artist and Meghan’s good friend Daniel Martin says she did dab a splodge of Aquaphor on her cheeks to achieve a clever reflective sheen. One more thing: Meghan wears her SPF . Between living in California and regularly hiking and walking with her dogs, husband and kids, she’s got the type of glow that comes with prevention and protection, and I applaud her for it.
Bare (protected) skin summer, incoming..
